mm: fix anon_vma_clone() error treatment

Andrew Morton noticed that the error return from anon_vma_clone() was
being dropped and replaced with -ENOMEM (which is not itself a bug
because the only error return value from anon_vma_clone() is -ENOMEM).

I did an audit of callers of anon_vma_clone() and discovered an actual
bug where the error return was being lost.  In __split_vma(), between
Linux 3.11 and 3.12 the code was changed so the err variable is used
before the call to anon_vma_clone() and the default initial value of
-ENOMEM is overwritten.  So a failure of anon_vma_clone() will return
success since err at this point is now zero.

Below is a patch which fixes this bug and also propagates the error
return value from anon_vma_clone() in all cases.

Fixes: ef0855d334e1 ("mm: mempolicy: turn vma_set_policy() into vma_dup_policy()")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Forrest <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Hartrick <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>	[3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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